Massive Resistance: The White Response to the Civil Rights Movement

by George Lewis

Massive Resistance is a compelling account of the white segregationist opposition to the US civil rights movement from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. It provides vivid insights into what sparked the confrontations in US society during the run-up to the major civil rights laws that transformed America's social and political landscape.

Genres: History

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 11, 2006

About the author

born 1848